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Re:The Programming Languages Beacon by mibrah on Monday March 14, 2016 @02:57AM (#11281421)
He says Paypal is in C++. That used to be true 10 years ago, but is no longer true. Paypal's back end is written in Java.

Basically this is a table with cherry picked software projects where anything that isn't in ASM, C, C++, or Java is lumped into "Other". I don't know why anyone would create this useless page. It's in a style that honestly suggests "pre-internet" where all your knowledge came from curated sources. Nobody needs to curate this list.

Re:The Programming Languages Beacon by pkolaczk on Monday March 14, 2016 @06:17AM (#11281936)
It is not only that. There is a huge bias towards products written in C or C++. E.g. there are niche not-production-ready-yet products like ScyllaDB listed, but many popular, bigger and mature databases like HBase, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2, HSQLDB or Derby written in Java are missing.